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Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
- Malayan Proverb
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

2.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb

3.
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese Proverb

4.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb

5.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

6.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb

7.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

8.
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb

9.
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

10.
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.
Dahlberg, Edward

11.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

12.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

13.
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
Morely, John

14.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John

15.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

16.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

17.
He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.
Johnson, Samuel

18.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

19.
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb

20.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb

21.
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb

22.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

23.
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John

24.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb

25.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

26.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

27.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

28.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb

29.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb

30.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Seneca

31.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

32.
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb

33.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb

34.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De

35.
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb

36.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

37.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

38.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

39.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

40.
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb

41.
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb

42.
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb

43.
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street Proverb

44.
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

45.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb

46.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

47.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

48.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb

49.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

50.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb


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